{"id":1206,"date":"2008-06-09T09:30:15","date_gmt":"2008-06-08T23:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1206"},"modified":"2008-06-09T09:30:15","modified_gmt":"2008-06-08T23:30:15","slug":"the-birmingham-hotel-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1206","title":{"rendered":"The Birmingham Hotel : Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>You would have to call that a pretty unsuccessful boycott. ~ <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=976\">Doug Smith<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/pridestrengthhonour\">Bulldog Spirit<\/a>, Bombshell Forum, December 2007<\/ul>\n<p>Er&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>After a determined campaign \u2014 initiated in October 2006 \u2014 to isolate and penalise the venue for <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=404\">hosting<\/a> the neo-Nazi schmucks of <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=405\">Blood &#038; Honour<\/a> Australia and the Southern Cross Hammerskins, at the end of March 2008 management of The Birmy finally capitulated to economic reality and <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1108\">closed their doors<\/a>. This was despite the efforts of a small number of <a href=\"http:\/\/birmyboycott.wordpress.com\/scabs\/\">fashion punks<\/a> who bravely rallied &#8217;round the former management&#8217;s righteous <strike>black<\/strike> flag.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=860\">Silly boys<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The better news is that the venue has since re-opened under <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/thebirminghamhotel\">new management<\/a>. As such, rather than boycott the venue, support it! $2 pots from 7pm to close is the right price, and being on the corner of Johnston &#038; Smith Streets, it&#8217;s the right location too.<\/p>\n<p>As for B&#038;H and the Hammerskins, after their last vewy secret gig @ The Birmy in 2006, the boys organised another vewy <em>vewy<\/em> secret gig in 2007 at the <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=914\">Melbourne Croatia Social Club<\/a>. And this year &#8212; who knows? No doubt it will be also vewy secret. In any event, the City of Churches appears to be a much more hospitable host for neo-Nazis, and on July 18, Blood &#038; Honour Australia will be holding its second annual Mid-Winter Fest, starring Bail Up!, Quick &#038; the Dead and Ultraviolence.<\/p>\n<ul><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i292.photobucket.com\/albums\/mm33\/thebirmy\/Picture5.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You would have to call that a pretty unsuccessful boycott. ~ Doug Smith, Bulldog Spirit, Bombshell Forum, December 2007 Er&#8230; After a determined campaign \u2014 initiated in October 2006 \u2014 to isolate and penalise the venue for hosting the neo-Nazi &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1206\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collingwood","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6AyE-js","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}